The Rank Organisation (founded as the J. Arthur Rank Organisation) is a British entertainment conglomerate founded by industrialist J. Arthur Rank in April...

financed by J. Arthur Rank and The Rank Organisation Rock-a-Doodle (1991, UK distribution only) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) The Stupids (1996) 8 Heads...

Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (22/23 December 1888 – 29 March 1972) was an English industrialist who was head and founder of The Rank Organisation. Rank was...

50% Rank Organisation, but this changed after a few years to a 60/40 split. Later, Xerox bought a further share making the split 80/20, and in the late...

picture industry until 2006, and continues to use the Gongman logo originally used by the Rank Organisation's film distribution subsidiary General Film Distributors...

The Gongman (also known as the "man-with-the-gong") is a company trademark for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. It was used as the introduction to all...

stand-in during screen tests, McGoohan was signed to a contract with The Rank Organisation. They gave him mostly villainous parts in films, including High...

Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd produced 12 films (1958–1966), and the Rank Organisation made 18 (1966–1978), while United International Pictures produced...

Top Rank Suite was the name given to a chain of nightclubs in the United Kingdom owned by the Rank Organisation. They were sometimes known as Top Rank Ballrooms...

J. Arthur Rank (by then Lord Rank) retired as chairman in 1962 and was succeeded by John Davis, who had begun to move the Rank Organisation away from...

my brother said, and he asked me to work for him. He was running an organisation that made training and recruitment films. I went along as a general dogsbody...

production for The Rank Organisation at Pinewood Studios from 1950 to 1964, and was credited as executive producer on 131 films. He was known as the "Earl of...

his retirement in 2012. John was the nephew of the 1st Baron Rank, and worked within the Rank Organisation after leaving school at Stowe. He had three siblings...

profile for the British Film Institute's Screenonline website asserts: "of all the Rank Organisation's starlets, Belinda Lee stands out as the most notorious...

and 1996, and from 1937 it was part of the Rank Organisation. General Film Distributors was created in 1935 by the British film distributor C. M. Woolf...

her teens at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). She signed to The Rank Organisation at the age of 17 and had small roles in the British films Lady...

Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving from "heartthrob...

Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v The Rank Organisation Ltd. [1985] BCLC 11 is a UK company law case dealing with "oppression" (or unfair prejudice)...

with the local release of The Shop at Sly Corner. At the age of 15, Dors signed a contract with the Rank Organisation, and joined J. Arthur Rank's "Charm...

in police organisations. The rank system defines authority and responsibility in a police organisation, and affects the culture within the police force...

loosely based on the 1951 novel of the same name by John Wyndham. The film was released in the UK by the Rank Organisation and in the US by Allied Artists...

Dramatic Art. She had a small part in the comedy Find the Lady (1956). Heywood was signed to the Rank Organisation, who changed her name to Anne Heywood...

Anglo-Amalgamated from 1958 to 1966, and the Rank Organisation from 1967 to 1978, the films were all made at Pinewood Studios. The series' humour relied largely...

and Beau Bridges. The film was produced, written and directed by David Wickes. It was the last film to be made by the Rank Organisation. Nick Freeman (David...

of the Rank Organisation who continued their ownership of the circuit for a further sixty years. Through a number of sales and acquisitions in the early...

with the American industry. The career of the producer Alexander Korda was marked by this objective, the Rank Organisation attempted to do so in the 1940s...

with a Dream released in the same year. Wisdom made a series of low-budget star-vehicle comedies for the Rank Organisation, beginning with Trouble in...

Granger's hair. The disappointment added to his dissatisfaction with the Rank Organisation, and his thoughts turned to Hollywood. According to Alan Wood, historian...

exacerbated by the expense of Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). Also, according to Powell, the Rank Organisation did not understand the artistic merits of the film,...

McGoohan. It was written by Endfield and John Kruse, and produced by the Rank Organisation and Aqua Film Productions. A recently released convict takes a driver's...